Keep package services alive through Durable Object eviction - #1530
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Persistent Discord-style supervisors were dying after a few minutes: the sandbox run lived in waitUntil, the host only woke the isolate hourly, and eviction silently marked the service stopped. Wake running services every 15s and immediately resume persistent services after eviction. Co-authored-by: me <me@kentcdodds.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPackage services now use 15-second keepalive alarms for in-flight runs. D1 liveness projections remain hourly and use projection-age tracking. Persistent services resume immediately after eviction, while bounded services retain retry backoff. ChangesPackage service lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds a 15-second keepalive and changes persistent services to resume after eviction. Current merge-readiness is reduced because the keepalive can interfere with reconnection alarms, and a D1 outage could drive repeated projection retries across active services; these issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DurableObjectAlarm
participant PackageService
participant D1Projection
DurableObjectAlarm->>PackageService: Deliver keepalive alarm
PackageService->>D1Projection: Project state when stale
PackageService->>DurableObjectAlarm: Schedule next keepalive
DurableObjectAlarm->>PackageService: Deliver recovery alarm after persistent eviction
PackageService->>PackageService: Resume persistent service
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In `@packages/worker/src/package-runtime/package-service.ts`:
- Around line 665-679: Update ensureRunningKeepalive and the active-run alarm
lifecycle to retain a requested service deadline separately while a run is
active, avoid replacing that future service alarm with a keepalive alarm, and
restore it after finalizeServiceRun completes, including when autoStart is
false. Add coverage for a service alarm scheduled more than one keepalive
interval before the run exits.
- Line 483: Update the heartbeat projection flow around lastProjectedAt and the
keepalive alarm handling so every projection attempt persists a separate attempt
timestamp before invoking D1, while retaining lastProjectedAt only for
successful projections. Use that attempt timestamp to enforce the hourly retry
limit when D1 fails, and add a failure-path test verifying repeated alarms do
not retry more than once per hour.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Rate-limit failed D1 projection attempts.
Line 483 updates lastProjectedAt only after D1 succeeds. If D1 is unavailable, Lines 657-663 return true on every keepalive alarm. Each running service then retries D1 every 15 seconds instead of hourly.
Persist a separate projection-attempt timestamp before each heartbeat projection. Keep lastProjectedAt for successful projections if it is needed for observability. Add a D1-failure test that verifies the hourly retry limit.
Also applies to: 657-663
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In `@packages/worker/src/package-runtime/package-service.ts` at line 483, Update
the heartbeat projection flow around lastProjectedAt and the keepalive alarm
handling so every projection attempt persists a separate attempt timestamp
before invoking D1, while retaining lastProjectedAt only for successful
projections. Use that attempt timestamp to enforce the hourly retry limit when
D1 fails, and add a failure-path test verifying repeated alarms do not retry
more than once per hour.
| private async ensureRunningKeepalive() { | ||
| if (!this.stateSnapshot.currentRunId) return | ||
| if (this.stateSnapshot.nextAlarmAt) { | ||
| const nextAtMs = Date.parse(this.stateSnapshot.nextAlarmAt) | ||
| if ( | ||
| !Number.isNaN(nextAtMs) && | ||
| nextAtMs - Date.now() <= packageServiceStateHeartbeatMs | ||
| nextAtMs - Date.now() <= packageServiceKeepaliveMs | ||
| ) { | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| await this.scheduleAlarm({ | ||
| runAt: new Date(Date.now() + packageServiceStateHeartbeatMs), | ||
| source: 'heartbeat', | ||
| runAt: new Date(Date.now() + packageServiceKeepaliveMs), | ||
| source: 'keepalive', | ||
| }) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve a service alarm while the service run is active.
Line 676 replaces a future source: 'service' alarm when its deadline is more than 15 seconds away. A service that calls service.setAlarm() and takes longer than one keepalive interval to exit loses its requested reconnect alarm.
finalizeServiceRun() then sees only a keepalive alarm. If autoStart is false, it does not schedule a replacement alarm.
Store the requested service deadline separately while a run is active. Restore that deadline after the run finishes. Add coverage for a service alarm that is scheduled more than 15 seconds before the run exits.
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In `@packages/worker/src/package-runtime/package-service.ts` around lines 665 -
679, Update ensureRunningKeepalive and the active-run alarm lifecycle to retain
a requested service deadline separately while a run is active, avoid replacing
that future service alarm with a keepalive alarm, and restore it after
finalizeServiceRun completes, including when autoStart is false. Add coverage
for a service alarm scheduled more than one keepalive interval before the run
exits.
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Intent
Make package services actually usable for daemon-like outbound sockets (Discord Gateway) so the Fly proxy is not required.
Kent's
@kentcdodds/discord-gateway-cf-experimentalready proved a Discord Gateway WebSocket can identify, heartbeat, and receiveMESSAGE_CREATEinside a persistent package service. It then died after ~4.5 minutes with no error: the sandbox run lived inwaitUntil, the host only woke the Durable Object hourly, and eviction silently marked the servicestopped.autoStartwas false, so nothing came back.Summary
keepalivealarm). D1 / UserMeter liveness projection stays hourly.mode: 'persistent'now means stay up until stopped: eviction immediately reschedules the same service, even whenautoStartis false. Bounded +autoStartstill uses crash-loop backoff.packageStorage(), usemode: 'persistent'.Testing
npx vitest run packages/worker/src/package-runtime/package-service.node.test.ts --project node-unit— 20 passed, including new cases for persistent eviction resume and keepalive-does-not-start-a-second-run.After this deploys, start
@kentcdodds/discord-gateway-cf-experimentgatewayagain and watch./statusfor heartbeats past the old ~4 minute cliff. Persistsession_id/ sequence is already in that package; this host change is what was missing.System changes
System recap — extends package-services (medium risk)
Mode: recap · Base:
main@295abe6a· Head:25ff17a4Classification: extends — persistent service lifecycle now resumes after Durable Object eviction and keeps the isolate awake with a short incoming alarm.
Primitives touched
package-servicespackage-runtimeChange flow
A running package service no longer depends on hourly heartbeats or
autoStartto survive isolate eviction.Invariants
Per-user isolation is unchanged: service Durable Object ids stay user-scoped. Persistent resume is same-user, same package, same service name.
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